SIR Connect Townhall

Disparities in IR Education and steps towards standardization of IR curriculum

Coordinator(s)

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  Shams Iqbal, MD

  Interventional Radiology
  Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
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  Constantinos Sofocleous, MD PhD

  Professor IR
  Weill Cornell Medical College Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, United States

Panelist(s)

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  Robert Lewandowski, MD

  Professor of Radiology, Medicine and Surgery
  Northwestern University, Dept. of Radiology, IR section, United States
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  Matthew Johnson, MD

  Interventional Radiologist
  Indiana University, United States
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  Marília Abath, MD (she/her/hers)

  Scientific director
  SOBRICE, Brazil
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  Brian Stainken, MD

  Happily Retired
  Self employed, United States
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  Ethel Rivas Zuleta, MD (she/her/hers)

  PRESIDENT
  Iberoamerican Society of Interventional Radiology, El Salvador
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  Shuvro Roy-Choudhury, MD, MBBS

  Director of Interventional Therapies
  NH Group of hospitals India, India
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  Kelvin Hong, MD, FSIR

  Executive Vice Chair, Radiology
  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States
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  Saher Sabri, MD, FSIR

  Chief of Interventional Radiology
  MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, United States
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  Sanjeeva Kalva, MD, FACR, FSIR, MBBS, RPVI (he/him/his)

  Vice-Chair, Image-Guided Interventions
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

We will discuss Global IR education discrepancies, and action items to find ways and means to standardize the IR curriculum on a global scale. Leaders with focus on action items and how to achieve them.